How do I disable tap-to-click on the touchpad in Ubuntu Gnome 17.04?

Question

There are no options to disable 'tap-to-click' in Mouse and Touch-pad settings, but there have always been in previous Ubuntu releases.

Solution 1

Just registered to spread the solution to this annyoing problem.

Make sure you have package xserver-xorg-input-libinput installed. Then you need to remove package xserver-xorg-input-synaptics and restart. After the restart you have all the options back in the GUI.

Everything is handled by xserver-xorg-input-libinput now. xserver-xorg-input-synaptics is interfering this.

Solution 2

It is also possible to disable tap-to-click for the synaptics driver by changing its configuration in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/ to set Option "MaxTapTime" "0". Here is some documetation on synaptics driver configuration options.

Switching from xserver-xorg-input-synaptics to xserver-xorg-input-libinput did give me the option in the settings UI to disable tap-to-click, which worked; however, the driver switch also resulted in the loss of the ability to right-click with a two-finger click.

This was for a Dell XPS 13.

Comments

[user308393]

Can this be made active now? 17.04 stable is out.

[Elder Geek]

Nominated for re-opening.

[web.learner]

Try gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.touchpad tap-to-click false. Does this work?

[user308393]

Already tried gsettings (before posting here). Has no effect.

[web.learner]

@user308393 That exact schema? Did you get any errors or does it go through properly?

[user308393]

In my case, xserver-xorg-input-libinput was already installed. All I had to do was remove xserver-xorg-input-synaptics and reboot. Thanks!

[stebu92]

thanks a lot, this helped. how this managed to pass beta tests is beyond me...

[rtindru]

Exactly my problem on an Asus UX501V!

[ketil]

This also works on Ubuntu 17.10. I just had to remove xserver-xorg-input-synaptics and restart, and all the settings were there!